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“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post titled I Have To Stop Giving A Sh*t talking about no longer worrying about what the actual stresses in my life [...]
Let me explain why the pattern above troubles me. I have been having late afternoon lows off-and-on for months. Normally I would think I need less insulin except for a few pertinent facts:
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** I’m writing this from my viewpoint as a Type 1 diabetic and, as always, Your Diabetes May Vary
The Atlantic posted an article by Thomas Goetz, The Diabetic’s Paradox, that did a very good and accurate job of describing why data collection is the arch-enemy of many diabetics, even addressing the psycho-social aspects of [...]
Diaversary, a word I had never heard of before finding the diabetic online community (DOC), is similar to an anniversary or birthday except the “celebrated” date is your date of diagnosis. Some do actually celebrate another year of co-existing with diabetes.
Personally, I used to just view it as another day of being cursed. I [...]
“Your child has Type 1 diabetes”
Those are six words that no parent wants to hear. Those six words were a death sentence 90 years ago before the advent of insulin.
Today, most of the developed world has insulin to treat diabetes, but those six words are still a death sentence in most impoverished, undeveloped, and [...]
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